Saturday, December 17, 2016

Addicted to Popeye - remembering the Adventurer's Inn Video Arcade!

We've mentioned Adventurer's Inn on this website many times... we've shared our memories, told stories of both wonders and horrors, but this video may be our most ambitious endeavor yet - highlighting the singular most addictive video game within the arcade which drew us in like zombies to an all-the-brains-you-can-eat buffet... the Popeye game!!

I took the song I had dug up a couple of years back - out of the archives, and finally got around to doing with it what I had wanted to do for a while now - and that was to add video and lyrics and share it with our legions of hungry fans... who are mostly just a handful of relatives and friends, and the occasional internet straggler who wandered into here by accident...

But anyway - here it is!! If you've ever been lucky enough to have known this almost magical, quite surreal place we remember as the Adventurer's Inn Video Arcade - you will get a particular kick out of this and perhaps even sympathize with our crippling Popeye addiction!! ENJOY!!!

Ha Ha , oh man , did I there's more to the story , I remember when I was a kid and my mother took me to a arcade in Chinatown near mott street , and there was this dwarf working there , besides collecting change it was his job to collect the balls that got stuck in bowling arcade game , everytime some kid would get a ball stuck near the pins they would have to stop the machine and the dwarf would have to go in there and get the balls out , but what's sick there was a bunch of Chinese teenagers that wanted toplay around and they purposely kept throwing the balls in the lane to get them stuck and everytime the dwarf guy had to stop the machine and get the balles out , so after the 3rd time the dwarf guy was really pissed and he told them this is the last time he's getting the balls out while the Chinese teenagers were lauging , well guess what happen ? they threw the balss in the lane and they got stuck again , and the dwarf guy looked them with this angry face , then he went inside the back and then next thing I knew he came running out with a big machete knife and was yelling "So you guys want to play hih ?) , I never saw a bunch of teenagers run so fast in my life , it's hilarious now , but when I was kid watching this , I was scared shit !!! , Ha Ha !!!

Haha... it does lack hilarity without physical enactment- just only as my friend Andre in Rochester did tell how he had once worked as a dishwasher in a chinese restaurant, and he kept dismissing the manager who kept repeatedly pestering him to wash the utensils with something like " yeah yeah, Mike, i'll get around to it.. after the 2nd or third time, the manager abruptly bursts through the swinging doors, round kicks a cart or pallet of empty boxes or such, shoots an incriminating pointing finger at him yelling " I thawt I tell you to creen da sivawaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!"

Lmao...It's burned into my brain.. the image of the manager having a chinese cabbage conniption fit, rigid stance, head and neck tilted foward, rigid arm and finger pointing like a dagger, yelling with mouth wide open like his jaws were about to unhinge... i guess that had to happen to enunciate the 'waaaaah' part of ' sivawaaaah'...

Ha Ha , amazing , and to top it off , my mother was out of the arcade meeting up with her boyfriend , and when they both came in the arcade , they asked me did I have fun at the arcade and I had this look of fear like I wanted to get the hell out , Ha Ha !!!

Dan, you mentioned this arcade as being on Mott street in Chinatown... it sounds like you've been at another location I've written about - which means you would have HAD to have seen the Tic Tac Toe playing chicken and the dragon in the basement!!http://the-oob-blog.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-arcade-chicken-and-dragon-peepshow.html